The Magnificent Mountain Women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies

Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the midnineteenth century women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike climb ski homestead botanize act as guides practice medicine and meet a variety of other challenges whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively well-illustrated book that measures up to its title The Magnificent Mountain Women. Arlene Blum provides a new introduction to this edition.